Chapter Summaries

After Salas and Hu Yanzhen withdrew in fear of the Black Robe Youth, Yu Xiaogang condemned the use of money and resources to gain strength. Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai challenged his teachings, leaving him desperate for Tang San to support him.

• Salas retreated to the VIP stands, and Hu Yanzhen led the defeated Elephant Armored Sect away from the arena.
• In Shrek Academy's preparation lounge, Yu Xiaogang denounced the Black Robe Youth's wealth-backed strength and urged his students to value hardship and willpower.
• Ma Hongjun argued that money and better resources could make the Shrek students stronger, pointing to their poor medicine and food.
• Dai Mubai agreed with Ma Hongjun and said the other world's Dai Mubai had built real strength through resources and physical training.
• Yu Xiaogang turned to Tang San and pleaded with his disciple to affirm that strength bought with money was worthless.

After confronting Yu Xiaogang over the hardships of his training and the wealthier path taken by his other self, Hei Tang San chose to continue despite their broken relationship. He narrowly defeated Huo Wu’s Ring Fusion technique, then learned that Shrek’s next opponent was Skywater Academy, whose ice abilities threatened his Blue Silver Grass.

• Hei Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that he regretted trusting theories that had kept him and his teammates poor and endangered, then left to prepare for the next match.
• Yu Xiaogang and Hei Tang San remained silent through the night as their rift persisted.
• Hei Tang San used his Eight Spider Lances to meet Huo Wu’s Ring Fusion attack head-on and survived after she exhausted her Soul Power.
• Hei Tang San returned to Shrek’s lounge badly burned and accepted a Recovery Great Sausage from Oscar.
• Yu Xiaogang warned that Skywater Academy was a nemesis to control-type soul masters and that Hei Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass feared ice.

Shrek Tang Sect dominated Blazing Fire Academy and Skywater Academy as Ma Hongjun and Zhu Zhuqing demonstrated their enhanced abilities. Bai Tang San treated the victories as a showcase for the Tang Sect Merchant Association’s medicinal bath packages, and Shrek’s record stood at twenty-seven wins.

• Bai Tang San sent Ma Hongjun to face Blazing Fire Academy, and Ma Hongjun’s Pure Gold Phoenix Fire instantly overwhelmed Huo Wu’s Ring Fusion and defeated her.
• Bai Tang San sent Zhu Zhuqing to test her cold resistance and speed against Skywater Academy, and she broke free of Shui Bing’er’s Ice Seal before defeating her in an instant.
• Bai Tang San ordered the Merchant Association to advertise the Ultimate Attribute Targeting Medicinal Bath Package using battle footage, with each set starting at five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• The tournament screen displayed Shrek Tang Sect Team’s twenty-seven victories, and the referee declared the team victorious.

Dugu Yan reported that Bai Tang San’s potions had cured her poison and set her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul on the path to evolving into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, then pledged herself to the Tang Sect Merchant Association. She relayed Emperor Xue Ye’s private summons, and Bai Tang San prepared to use the meeting to negotiate for duty-free trading rights and access to the imperial treasury.

• Dugu Yan told Bai Tang San that her poison was gone and her Martial Soul was expected to evolve within three years.
• Dugu Yan knelt and pledged to serve the Tang Sect Merchant Association, but Bai Tang San told her to earn dividends by creating value instead.
• Dugu Yan relayed her grandfather’s invitation to drink Hundred Flower Brew and discuss cultivation plans for ten-thousand-year Immortal Herbs.
• Dugu Yan revealed that Emperor Xue Ye had secretly requested a private meeting with Bai Tang San.
• Bai Tang San accepted the summons, ordered Zhao Wuji to prepare a carriage, and requested the audit report on military supply deficits in the empire’s southwestern provinces.

Bai Tang San confronted Emperor Xue Ye with evidence of corruption in the empire’s military procurement and demanded tax- and inspection-free trade rights in exchange for cheaper supplies. Crown Prince Xue Qinghe challenged the proposal, and Bai Tang San used his Purple Demon Eye to see through Xue Qinghe’s disguise.

• Hei Tang San received an honorary baron title and five thousand Gold Soul Coins from Emperor Xue Ye, then spoke openly with Crown Prince Xue Qinghe about military uses for hidden weapons.
• Dugu Bo warned Bai Tang San that Emperor Xue Ye would try to put him in his place, but Bai Tang San entered the palace without bowing.
• Bai Tang San presented a ledger detailing inflated procurement prices, missing military supplies, and millions of Gold Soul Coins diverted to officials and counts.
• Bai Tang San threatened to publish the evidence unless Emperor Xue Ye let the Tang Sect Merchant Association handle military supplies at thirty percent lower cost in exchange for inspection-free, tax-free trade.
• Xue Qinghe objected that the deal threatened state security and supply reliability, while Bai Tang San activated his Purple Demon Eye and saw through Xue Qinghe’s disguise.

Bai Tang San exposed the poison in Emperor Xue Ye and recognized Xue Qinghe's hidden identity, then rejected the crown prince's offer by identifying the poison ingredients in his incense. Xue Qinghe's friendly approach turned to murderous intent, leaving Bai Tang San under threat.

• Bai Tang San saw the Six-Winged Angel within Xue Qinghe and the slow-acting poison around Emperor Xue Ye's heart, but concealed what he knew while negotiating a merchant agreement.
• Qian Renxue watched the scene from the Black World and feared Bai Tang San had exposed her true identity, while Hei Tang San felt humiliated by Bai Tang San's influence and success.
• In the Black World, Xue Qinghe praised Hei Tang San's tactics and invited him to join the East Palace, and Hei Tang San gratefully accepted the offer of friendship.
• In the White World, Xue Qinghe offered Bai Tang San high office and royal favor in exchange for his support, but Bai Tang San did not accept.
• Bai Tang San identified the herbs in Xue Qinghe's incense as ingredients in the poison used on Emperor Xue Ye, and Xue Qinghe released killing intent against him.

Bai Tang San secured a trade agreement with Xue Qinghe by offering incense to conceal the smell of the poisonous herbs used against Emperor Xue Ye. His actions alarmed Ning Fengzhi and Bibi Dong, who recognized the threat he posed, while Yu Xiaogang condemned him.

• Bai Tang San offered Xue Qinghe a private supply of Concentration Incense in exchange for a warrant guaranteeing the Tang Sect Merchant Association's northern trade routes.
• Xue Qinghe accepted the deal, stamped the agreement, and warned Bai Tang San to keep silent.
• Ning Fengzhi realized the herbs could be poisoning Emperor Xue Ye and concluded that the crown prince had been replaced by an impostor.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei to prepare three Soul Douluo-level assassins to kill Bai Tang San if he would not submit to Spirit Hall.
• Yu Xiaogang denounced Bai Tang San for helping conceal the poisoning, then urged Hei Tang San not to admire him.

Hei Tang San struggled to meet the demands of hand-forging hidden weapons while Yu Xiaogang warned him about the danger of provoking powerful factions. In the White World, Bai Tang San showed Titan an industrial assembly line that could mass-produce precision parts, and Titan asked whether it could make the Buddha Fury Tang Lotus.

• Flender silenced Yu Xiaogang and warned him that his words about the imperial succession could endanger everyone at Shrek Academy.
• Hei Tang San forged hidden weapons for three days and nights, but told Yu Xiaogang that handcrafting them could not meet the academy’s needs or outside orders.
• Bai Tang San brought Titan to a sealed factory outside Heaven Dou City and introduced its stamping machines and conveyor belt.
• Titan watched the Strength Clan workers use the machines to produce identical crossbow housings and gears, then learned how the assembly line divided production into simple tasks.
• Titan asked Bai Tang San whether the factory could mass-produce the Buddha Fury Tang Lotus.

Bai Tang San’s assembly-line production of simplified Godly Zhuge Crossbows convinced Titan of the Strength Clan’s future and drew Divine Craftsman Lou Gao toward the Tang Sect Merchant Association. At Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang dismissed the value of such weapons and prepared his exhausted students for the Promotion Tournament, while Dai Mubai doubted their chances.

• Bai Tang San showed Titan the simplified Godly Zhuge Crossbow and revealed that the Strength Clan had produced three thousand in one day for a huge profit.
• Titan knelt and pledged the Strength Clan’s loyalty to Bai Tang San, while Hei Titan watching the Sky Curtain mourned his clan’s poverty and outdated methods.
• Lou Gao abandoned his Blacksmith Association presidency and set off for Heaven Dou City to see the stamping machine tool.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled being thrown out by Titan and, after Ma Hongjun praised the crossbows, insisted that Soul Power and will mattered more than external weapons.
• Yu Xiaogang told Shrek’s students to rely on their stamina and endurance in the Promotion Tournament’s one-on-one matches, and Hei Tang San urged them to defend Shrek’s glory.
• Dai Mubai silently questioned whether the team could survive the grueling matches and reach the finals.

Bai Tang San equipped his team with protective armor, smoke bombs and repeating crossbows for the promotion tournament, then prepared paralysis-poisoned bolts to overwhelm opponents without revealing their Soul Skills. The chapter ended with Ma Hongjun resenting the stark contrast between Bai Tang San’s resources and Shrek Academy’s harsh training.

• Bai Tang San ordered the twelve team members to open cases of tactical gear and explained how to use armor, antidotes, smoke bombs and improved repeating crossbows.
• Bai Tang San instructed the team to avoid close combat and keep their trump-card Soul Skills hidden until they faced Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation.
• Dugu Bo brought Bai Tang San poisonous plants, which Bai Tang San processed into a colorless, odorless toxin that could paralyze anyone scratched by a poisoned bolt.
• Bai Tang San said his Tang Sect Merchant Association valued efficiency and profit over fair competition, and he intended to secure an overwhelming victory.
• Ma Hongjun watched the laboratory scene from Shrek Academy’s cramped dormitory and complained to Hei Tang San that their training and lack of equipment left them helpless against the crossbows.

Hei Tang San and his impoverished Shrek teammates struggled through a grueling Promotion Tournament match while the White World’s wealthy, heavily armed team prepared to face Balak Academy. The chapter ended with Dai Mubai entering the arena for the White World team’s match against Balak.

• Hei Tang San rebuked Ma Hongjun for criticizing Yu Xiaogang’s training, while privately resenting the contrast with the White World’s wealth and power.
• Bai Tang San explained that his Tang Sect Merchant Association pursued efficiency and overwhelming victory, and Dugu Bo recognized the danger of his poisoned crossbow bolts.
• In the Black World, Ma Hongjun complained that Shrek’s harsh training and lack of protective gear could not prepare them for weapons coated in neurotoxin.
• Hei Tang San led Shrek to victory over Balak Academy after seven exhausting matches, and Dai Mubai and Oscar helped him off the arena.
• In the White World, Bai Tang San limited Dai Mubai to three minutes against Balak Academy and threatened to reduce his Whale Rubber quota if he took longer.
• Dai Mubai stepped onto the arena and challenged Balak Academy’s captain to begin the match.

Dai Mubai crushed Balak Academy in a brief physical sweep, alarming Emperor Xue Ye and Salas while Black Dai Mubai brooded over the contrast between their worlds. The Sky Curtain then showed Hei Tang San recovering from Huo Wu’s ultimate attack after she kissed him, before the White World’s Huo Wu challenged Tang San.

• Dai Mubai defeated Balak Academy’s team members with overwhelming physical strength, and the final member surrendered before the hourglass had run out.
• Emperor Xue Ye recognized the military value of Dai Mubai’s strength, while Salas resolved to find a chance to eliminate the growing Shrek monsters.
• Black Dai Mubai watched the Sky Curtain, wounded his fist against a tree, and left after Yu Xiaogang urged him to control his emotions.
• In the Black World, Hei Tang San survived Huo Wu’s Ring Fusion attack by taking it head-on, and Huo Wu kissed him before running off the arena.
• In the White World, Huo Wu called Tang San of Shrek down to face her.

Bai Tang San sent Ma Hongjun to defeat Huo Wu, then revealed that Blazing Fire Academy’s cultivation method was poisoning its practitioners and offered a cure through the Tang Sect Merchant Association. Huo Wu was left disillusioned, while Hei Tang San watched in outrage from the Black World.

• Huo Wu challenged Bai Tang San to a duel, but he sent Ma Hongjun to fight her instead.
• Ma Hongjun overwhelmed Huo Wu’s fire with his Ultimate Fire and threw her out of the arena, winning for the Shrek Tang Sect Team.
• Blazing Fire Academy’s lead teacher confronted Bai Tang San, who explained that the academy’s cultivation method caused fire poison and warned that Huo Wu’s Ring Fusion could have crippled her.
• Bai Tang San gave the lead teacher a report and quoted a Tang Sect Merchant Association treatment, prompting the teacher to accept the information and consider an order.
• Huo Wu sat dejectedly on the grass, while Hei Tang San watched from the Black World and condemned Bai Tang San for turning the duel into a business deal.

Feng Xiaotian challenged Tang San, but the White World’s Bai Tang San defeated him by exploiting flaws in his Thirty-Six Slashes and its accumulating recoil. The chapter ended with Feng Xiaotian crippled on the arena floor as Bai Tang San walked away with the wager.

• Yu Xiaogang angrily condemned the earlier use of an opponent’s weakness for profit, while Flender and the students silently dismissed his outrage.
• Feng Xiaotian attacked Hei Tang San with his Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes, and Hei Tang San summoned the Clear Sky Hammer to meet his strike as Salas recognized the weapon.
• In the White World, Feng Xiaotian challenged Shrek’s Tang San, and Bai Tang San offered one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins on a wager that Feng could not touch him.
• Bai Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to evade Feng Xiaotian’s first fourteen slashes, then redirected the fifteenth with his Mysterious Jade Hand.
• Feng Xiaotian’s accumulated force recoiled through his body, breaking his arms and leaving him unable to continue.
• Bai Tang San collected the wager slip, criticized the flaws in Feng Xiaotian’s technique, and left him lying in despair.

Feng Xiaotian was shaken by Bai Tang San’s dismantling of his signature technique, while Hei Tang San’s exposed Clear Sky Hammer alarmed Yu Xiaogang about Spirit Hall’s response. During the tournament break, Bai Tang San publicly forged a Deep Sea Sinking Silver gear with the Clear Sky Hammer and announced the Tang Sect Merchant Association’s premium custom service.

• Feng Xiaotian recalled how Bai Tang San had exposed the flaws in his Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes and felt powerless.
• Yu Xiaogang panicked after Hei Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer, then left to seek protection from Sect Master Ning and Crown Prince Xue Qinghe.
• Titan delivered Deep Sea Sinking Silver to Bai Tang San in the Tang Sect Merchant Association’s rest area.
• Bai Tang San used the Clear Sky Hammer and the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer to forge the metal into a precisely finished gear before the watching audience.
• Bai Tang San announced a limited high-end custom service for Hidden Weapons, priced from one million Gold Soul Coins per order.

The Sky Curtain’s advertisement for the Clear Sky Hammer stunned the crowd, while Hei Tang San and Bai Tang San faced assassination attempts in their respective worlds. Hei Tang San survived only when Zhao Wuji intervened, but Bai Tang San’s poison trap killed all five assassins.

• Bai Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer endorsement halted Salas’s killing intent, enraging Tang Hao and leaving Hei Tang San shaken by his counterpart’s boldness.
• Three black-clad Soul Kings attacked Hei Tang San in his tent, wounded his shoulder, and fled when Zhao Wuji approached.
• Five Spirit Hall assassins surrounded Bai Tang San’s luxury tent and triggered a poison trap that killed them within seconds.
• Bai Tang San timed the poison’s effect, judged its performance, and considered reducing its purity to cut costs.

Zhao Wuji delivered the bodies of Salas’s failed assassins to Spirit Hall and demanded one million Gold Soul Coins, forcing Salas to pay to prevent the scandal from spreading. Beyond the Sky Curtain, Shrek’s students celebrated the retaliation while Yu Xiaogang condemned its ruthless use of poison and ambush tactics.

• Zhao Wuji placed five Golden Phoebe Wood Boxes outside Spirit Hall and presented Salas with a bill for one million Gold Soul Coins.
• Salas opened the boxes and recognized the corpses as the assassination squad he had sent the previous night.
• Zhao Wuji warned Salas that the merchant association had reported the case and would display the bodies at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena.
• Salas ordered the Finance Department to pay one million Gold Soul Coins and had the bodies taken away for burning.
• Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai praised the retaliation, while Yu Xiaogang condemned the poison-gas ambush as dishonorable.

The chapter contrasted Hei Tang San’s grateful acceptance of noble titles with Bai Tang San’s negotiation to exchange them for commercial privileges. It ended with Yu Xiaogang leaving for Spirit City to seek the Pope’s help with Twin Martial Souls, while Bai Tang San dismissed the risk of him revealing secrets.

• Emperor Xue Ye granted Shrek’s members viscount titles, and Hei Tang San accepted them on the team’s behalf.
• Bai Tang San refused the noble titles and negotiated five years of tax exemption in Heaven Dou City and first-priority access to Royal Post Stations for the Tang Sect Merchant Association.
• Yu Xiaogang left Hei Tang San a letter explaining that he was going to Spirit City to ask the Pope about the backlash from Twin Martial Souls.
• Dugu Yan told Bai Tang San that Yu Xiaogang had left for Spirit City and planned to discuss Twin Martial Souls with the Pope.
• Bai Tang San refused to intercept Yu Xiaogang, arguing that he was unlikely to learn or reveal anything useful.

Bai Tang San dismissed the backlash from Twin Martial Souls as a problem he had already solved, while Flender refused to chase Yu Xiaogang to Spirit City. In the canyon, Hei Tang San’s convoy was ambushed, as the story shifted to the White World’s heavily armored merchant convoy traveling separately.

• Bai Tang San told Dugu Yan that Immortal Herbs and whale rubber had already solved the Twin Martial Soul backlash, then ordered the convoy to leave camp on schedule.
• Flender told Liu Erlong that Yu Xiaogang had chosen his own road and that his journey to Spirit City would change nothing, leaving her alone in distress.
• Lor Diarra attacked Shrek Academy’s escort convoy in the canyon, and Hei Tang San’s Bone Piercing Nails failed to pierce his protective aura.
• Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Yu Tianheng discussed the armor, shock-absorbing arrays, and Mental Power shielding on the White World’s separate Tang Sect Merchant Association convoy.

Bai Tang San discovered Spirit Hall’s ambush at Eagle Fall Gorge, prepared the convoy to fight, and ordered it to advance despite the danger. As Spirit Hall’s attackers leaped from the cliffs, Bai Tang San held a red-button device on the carriage roof.

• Bai Tang San halted the convoy, and two hundred mercenaries formed a defensive ring around the carriages.
• Bai Tang San rejected Dugu Yan’s suggestion to take a detour, distributed Anti-Poison Pills and High-Explosive Fire Thunder, and assigned Dugu Bo to stay hidden unless a Titled Douluo appeared.
• Bai Tang San used his Purple Demon Eye to locate more than a thousand ambushers and a Soul Douluo waiting at Eagle Fall Gorge.
• Bai Tang San ordered the convoy to advance, while Bibi Dong considered whether to withdraw the ambushers and Gui Mei urged her to do so.
• Spirit Hall Soul Masters disguised as bandits leaped from both cliffs, and Ma Hongjun asked Bai Tang San whether he should set them on fire.